A review by its_kievan
A History of the Bible: The Book and Its Faiths by John Barton

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

2.5

Parts One and Two are a fascinating overview of how the Old and New Testaments were created, with an amazing in-depth focus on what was actually happening when they were written and how we know all this. Parts Three and Four are a painfully dry slog through centuries of biblical scholarship that took me more than a month to struggle through. So, to put it lightly, a bit of a mixed bag.